Principles of Trauma Therapy

A Guide to Symptoms, Evaluation, and Treatment ( DSM-5 Update)

NEW TO THIS EDITION:

• Expanded and updated coverage of cognitive and emotional processing, affect regulation skills development, acute trauma resolution, attachment-oriented relational interventions, new diagnostic issues and details, and psychopharmacology
• Additional chapters and/or sections on traumatic brain injury, risk management and ethics, interventions in medical trauma in ERs and burn units, mindfulness as trauma treatment, methodology, and specific applications for the adolescent trauma survivor
• Thoroughly updated DSM-5 content throughout

KEY FEATURES:

• Integrated Approach to trauma treatment for a comprehensive, multi-modal approach to simple and complex trauma presentations
• Provides directly applicable, empirically-informed information on how to apply different treatment techniques and modalities to address a variety of issues and symptom clusters found in trauma survivors
• Presents a clinician-friendly review of treatment literature with specific, practical information on trauma effects and trauma treatment, calling on the most current information available in the trauma literature and applying new DSM-5 diagnostic formulations
• Addresses innovative and cutting-edge topics, including trauma psychopharmacology, indications and limitations of psychoactive medication in the treatment of trauma survivors, assessment and diagnostic strategies, the role of traumatic brain injury, mindfulness as an empirically-validated treatment approach, interventions in acute stress and mass casualty events, and trauma applications in medical environments such as emergency rooms and burn units